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Meanings of break camp in English

Leave a camp.

Usage of break camp in English
1
That morning it was simply impossible to make the boys break camp.
The Ivory Trail
2
He pulled himself stiffly to his feet and proceeded to break camp.
The Turtles of Tasman
3
Satisfied, Eskkar ordered his commanders to break camp, and get the soldiers moving.
Quest for honour
4
It is midnight, now, and we break camp at six in the morning.
The Innocents Abroad
5
Before he left, he begged me not to break camp tomorrow.
Julian
6
To-morrow morning we break camp and go back to the other camping place.
The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat; Or, the Stormy Cruise of the Red ...
7
You've wasted our supplies just to get us to hurry and break camp.
Tales of lonely trails
8
She had no choice but to break camp and head downriver.
Frontier courtship
9
And we did break camp in a hurry so as to miss the sheriff.
The Highgrader
10
I'm writing in the early morning, before we break camp.
The Long Earth
11
She wondered about them as they hurried to break camp early the next morning.
The Plains of Passage
12
You will now break camp, and be prepared to march in half an hour.
Captain Macklin: His Memoirs
13
To-morrow morning the Snakes break camp and go back south.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
14
Everything was still wet though, and we did not break camp till after dinner.
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
15
It had time, however, to break camp, form, and face about to the eastward.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 / A Political History of...
16
Simmo was already packing up, to break camp that morning.
Wilderness Ways
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common